pen,le hacee been rioting in th streets almost actually calling for maduro s removal. ^ wh> the new york times now reporting the cia has named a new station chief for iran, and using the person s ally sed rea name on the front page. we have decided not to identify this person in any way. the times claims that appointing someone of this person s level is a clear warning to tehran that i ls not business as usual. here to discuss walid phares, middleees experts, former advisor to president trump. there are two issues, the naming and outing on the front page, we llo bet to that in a minute. this individual has a storied past with the daency. putting them in this position, is that a clear message to the ayatollah? pagsolutely. t sut let me by sin by saying t you could criticize an iran policy at will, if you donhem daree with the de twadministrar
that s also the reason that they d likely be brought in to begin with, that these are people who don t mind aggressively going after the president s adversaries against all of these negative reports and, of course, all of those leakers. liz? elizabeth: all right. of kristin fisher with great reporting at the white house. kristin, thank you so much. leland: a little bit more on this with jenna johnson of the washington post. jenna, always good to see you, thanks so much. we ll start where kristin did on this issue of executive privilege. what is the calculus that the white house is going throu is it an optics issue? is it a legal issue? well, it s a little bit of both. optics wise chances are they would love for comey to not testify at all leland: good luck with that. [laughter] there are a lot of things that could be very embarrassing about the president that could come out in this testimony. and so optics wise they would love for this leland: i heard one comment that was quo
save for a heritage foundation report. the president misunderstood the mit or report. but we have economists all over the world saying we have to do something about climate change because the economic ramifications are significant. that is what the paris agreement did. but what s funny here if you want to talk about jobs, the president emphasized coal jobs. we have 67,000 coal jobs in america. we lost 70,000 retail jobs last year alone. so i think we have to put all of this in perspective when we re talking about jobs affected. certainly, the coal industry is the most affected by our effort to eradicate to rid ourselves of a coal-driven economy and co2 emissions, but at the same time we re seeing innovations in so many other areas. it s why general electric and coca-cola and dow chemical are in favor of this plan. elizabeth: all right. we re going to have to leave it there. blake, sean, thank you so much for joining us. appreciate it. great to be here. thanks for having me.
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